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2 Sep 2008

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AFP

Ivory Coast's toxic waste trial to start September 29

The trial of 12 people charged with involvement in the 2006 toxic waste pollution scandal in the Ivory Coast is set to go ahead on September 29, according to court documents released Tuesday. The 12 are charged with "poisoning or complicity to poison" in the illicit dumping of 500 tonnes of caustic soda and petroleum residues across more than a dozen open-air rubbish tips around the commercial capital Abidjan. The toxic sludge, brought into Ivory Coast by Dutch-based multinational trading company Trafigura, killed 16 people and caused an estimated 95,000 people to seek medical attention. Among those facing trial is the head of a local company sub-contracted to handle the waste, and the harbour master of Abidjan port. No employees of Trafigura or its local subsidiary are on trial, however...